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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






2. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






3. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






4. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






5. March 17






6. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






7. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






8. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






9. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






10. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






11. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






12. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






13. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






14. Transit of Mercury.






15. Transit of Mercury.






16. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






17. Return of Halley's Comet.






18. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






19. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






20. Triple conjunction Mars






21. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






22. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






23. Transit of Mercury.






24. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






25. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






26. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






27. Triple conjunction Mars






28. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






29. December 10






30. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






31. Transit of Venus.






32. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






33. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






34. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






35. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






36. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






37. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






38. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






39. Transit of Venus on June 11.






40. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






41. Transit of Venus on June 11.






42. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






43. Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.






44. Transit of Venus on June 9.






45. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






46. Transit of Venus.






47. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






48. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






49. Triple conjunction Mars






50. Triple conjunction Mars